NWA 4590 - Tamassint - Original Stones

Historical Meteorites

The Mocs meteorite shower was one of the largest ever witnessed - the strewnfield was more than 70 square kilometers and more than 100,000 individuals and fragments landed!

Date: 03/25/09

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1882 - Mocs - .020 grams

Our fragment is small - but it has a nice crust! - it is classified as an Olivine-Hypersthene-Chondrite L5-6

Date: 03/14/09

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Orthodox Cathedral, Mordoviya, Russia

The Novo-Urei meteorite fell in Mordoviya, Russia in September of 1886 near several peasants who recovered it from a shallow hole

Date: 07/09/09

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1886 - Novo-Urei - Original Stone

Part of the collection of the Laboratory of Meteoritics in Moscow - three stones were recovered weighing 2,058 kilograms in total - the photo from the Laboratory shows a 460 gram stone

Date: 07/09/09

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1886 - Novo-Urei - Fragments

Our small fragments are classified as a Ureilite - which named after the Novo-Urei meteorite - they are ultramafic achondrites that contain interstitial carbon as graphite or diamond

Date: 07/09/09

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Orgueil from Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

The meteorite fell on May 14, 1864 near Orgueil in southern France

Date: 04/29/09

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1864 - Orgueil

A large fragmnet of the Orgueil meteorite which is on display in Paris - don't touch it! - or it will crumble into pieces

Date: 04/29/09

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1864 - Orgueil - .020 grams

Our small fragment of Orgueil belongs to the CI chondrite group having a composition that is identical to the sun - excluding the gas elements like hydrogen and helium

Date: 01/01/00

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1868 - Drawing of the Pultusk meteorite

On January 30, 1868 thousands of people witnessed a very large shower of small stones at the town of Pultusk near Warsaw, Poland - the estimated number of fragments was 68,780 !!

Date: 05/02/09

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Pultusk Strewn Field

The area covered by the map is about 127 square kilometers

Date: 09/06/07

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1868 - Pultusk - 8 grams

Our polished slice is classified as H5 chondrite

Date: 05/02/09

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1724 - Steinbach - Germany

Coat of Arms

Date: 03/25/09

Views: 900

Steinbach Countryside

The original Steinbach meteorite mass was found in 1724 - but since that time two additional masses had been found

Date: 03/25/09

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1724 - Steinbach - .158 grams

Our beautiful slice is classified as a IVA-anomalous with silicate inclusions

Date: 01/01/00

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1874 - Castalia - North Carolina

Nash County Seal

Date: 03/31/09

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1874 - Castalia - .030 grams

Top View - it is a H5, brecciated, xenolithic chondrite

Date: 01/01/00

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Castalia - .030 grams

Bottom View - The meteorite fell on May 14, 1874 - a witness heard a rumbling roar three miles north of Louisburg with explosions lasting about four minutes!

Date: 01/01/00

Views: 867

1984 - Claxton News Photo

On December 10th, 1984 at 10:30 p.m. in Claxton Georgia - war veteran Don Richardson heard a whistling noise while outside of his mobile home and flinched instinctively because it reminded him of an incoming mortar round

Date: 06/29/05

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Carutha Barnard’s mailbox - Hit by Claxton!

Just a few feet away from Don Richardson the meteorite impact smashed the mailbox knocking it off its mounting and imbedded itself several inches into the ground

Date: 03/31/09

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Claxton - .158 grams

The meteorite seemed to survive the collision just fine and we have a nice piece - it is classified as an L6 chondrite